Illustrations and text printed from engraved copper plates

Includes bibliographical references

Bound in old morocco; gilt boards; all edges gilt; former owner's signatures on second front free endpaper recto; long inscription in Spanish on second front free endpaper recto, and continuing onto the verso of the frontispiece

In v. 2, p. 108, the inscription on the medal of Augustus Caesar reads "post.est " Two known variants: one corrected to read "potest" and one that reads "post est."

Vol 1.: [32], 176, [3], 178-264, [2] p.; v. 2: [24], 48, [3], 50-94, [3], 96-152, [3], 154-172, [3], 174-191, [17] p. (the last leaf blank)

Engraved throughout

Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 1102

ESTC

With a list of subscribers in each volume. List of illustrations at the end of v. 2

LC copy of v. 2 has bookplate with initials "C.C.B." and motto "touch not the cat but a glove."

v. 1. Praefatio -- Horatii Flacii vita -- Carminum -- Epodon -- Carmen seculare -- v. 2. Satyrarum -- Epistolarum De arte poetical -- Sigurarum explication

2 v. : 24 cm. (8vo)

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